Death of Salesman Blog - 5.25.16

Within death of a salesman there is criticism of the basic economic system of capitalism and how that plays in part with Willy's destruction. Arthur Miller portrays several individuals like Charley as a businessman, who is definitely successful and somewhat wealthy as decent and giving to others. He's decent because he loans/donates money to the Loman family in order for them to keep their lives together. I believe that the treatment of American "business values" in this play can be viewed as both good and bad, just because from what we see on all sides of the spectrum – that being the Loman family, Charley's family, and even Howard as an individual, who I view as the worst of all "business values," even though he does fire Willy for his own good. In the grand scheme of things, I believe that Willy's failure to meet ends in a capitalist economy ultimately caused his destruction in the end, mainly because his values did not absolutely match up and coordinate with the modern "business values" in 1949.